Norvell Emerson: “I rise in a generic sense and not with specific reference to this bill. The gentleman from Minnesota said that there is…”

“I rise in a generic sense and not with specific reference to this bill. The gentleman from Minnesota said that there is nothing unusual about this process, and that is true. There is nothing unusual about this process except that the whole process is unusual in that there is very little comity extended to the Members whose districts are affected if their point of view happens to be different from that of the elitist majority. I know; I used to be a member of the subcommittee. I have cooperated with the gentleman from Minnesota, and I have opposed the gentleman from Minnesota. However, the fact of the matter is this House could not and would not pass an omnibus national wilderness bill because, if we had such a bill, every Member of the House would be affected in the manner that the four gentleman from southern California are talking about. Everyone would have problems of this sort to be resolved, and consequently everyone would vote against it because they would not be accommodated in their representative capacity.”